05-Oct-15 India's government is focusing on quality and easy visa processes to make India a global destination for healthcare, commerce secretary Rita Teaotia has said. She emphasised the need to focus on standards and accreditation of hospitals and laboratories to enhance confidence. 1.3 mn medical tourists visit India annually from the US, UK, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China and others. [image: The Times Of India]

04-Oct-15 Apollo Hospitals will open four more hospitals in India in the coming months, taking its total bed strength to over 10,000, Chairman C Prathap Reddy said. Stating that India needs 100,000 additional beds every year for next decade, he said there was need for new hospitals to meet the huge demand. [image: ET Healthworld]

02-Oct-15 Portea Medical, India’s largest medicalised homecare group has just expanded to Malaysia and is actively looking at other South East Asian markets, linking up to hospitals, labs and potentially insurers. “We do provide medical services in retirement communities, but we... want to remain focused on homecare, post-operative care and chronic disease management,” said CEO Meena Ganesh. [image: TechCrunch].

02-Oct-15 Fullerton Healthcare, a provider of enterprise healthcare services, intends to advance its delivery of healthcare and improve the overall patient experience through the use of Microsoft cloud technology. Headquartered in Singapore, Fullerton operates over 180 clinics in Asia-Pacific. Office 365 Enterprise will enable it to integrate its back-end IT, and improve its front-end service delivery. [image: Networks Asia]

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